'So proud' of Andrew for Trooping the Colour - WTAF - it's his job

[TwitterQueen1]

I'm feeling mean but I don't care. Apparently Sarah F and Eugenie have posted about how proud they are of Andrew rehearsing for Trooping the Colour.
This is his job. He has been doing it his entire life. I'm generally a supporter of the RF but this takes the piss to the extreme. He deserves no special praise, no accolades, nothing. It's what the RF is supposed to do.

I’m proud of my ex-husband and my daughter for all sorts of mundane stuff.

That tends to be what happens in families.

He was the only one of the queen’s children who never took to riding - he was frightened of it as a child and he’s learnt specifically for this. It’s incredibly hard to learn to ride well in later life, particularly if you’re nervous of horses, so it’s not surprising his family are proud.

Decades ago there was an autobiography published about Princess Margaret. It was called 'A Life Unfulfilled' - I suspect the same could be said of Prince Andrew. In his youth he was a handsome pilot in the Royal Navy. Then he married moronic, money grabbing Fergie, she humiliated and cheated on him and he's been in the doldrums ever since. Not really married, not really free and never found a role for himself in public life.

He was a helicopter pilot and served during the Falklands War.

I’m no fan but he has not exactly done nothing.

I never said he's done nothing in his life. I simply said he's just turned up for a Sunday pm official engagement. As he should.

The point I'm making is that Andrew has had NOTHING else to do in his life except support the Queen.

Er, he flew a helicopter in the Falklands - saved a few lives as I recall.

To be fair (like Wills and Harry) he has actually served and earned his uniform.

And I'm a republican

He was a helicopter pilot and served during the Falklands War

That was nearly 40 years ago? What's he done since?

No idea apart from the 'business ambassador' stuff he did.

I was merely responding to whoever said he had done nothing.

Nothing wrong with a family being proud of each other. Have you seen some of the basic stuff people gush over on social media? This doesn't seem as basic as that and I can imagine they're proud of their Dad in a nice looking uniform. It's an okay and normal reaction imo.

Sure, don't like him for whatever reason but his kids and ex saying they're proud of him isn't a weird or wrong thing to do.

OP, you sound like a misery guts. Do you feel the same about all the parents that post about their children's school awards? Or when they've taken their first steps? Or said their first word? With all the shit that is posted on social media, a family being proud of each other is hardly anything to give a shit about.

It's not that I disagree, OP, it's more than I don't think a bunch of workshy anachronisms like the RF have the faintest idea of what constitutes actual effort or commitment etc.

A bit pedantic maybe but..

1. It was on Saturday morning (not Sunday afternoon)

1. It was the first time Andrew has performed this duty. He assumed the role of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards after Philip retired. So no, he doesn't "do it every year"

1. As pp said, he has learned to ride to a very high standard in order to fulfil this role. It's really bloody difficult controlling a horse for that long when there's another 100+ horses, plus gun carriages, plus massed bands, plus thousands of people watching. And it's hot. And in full ceremonial uniform. At age 59.

The queen HAS ridden all her life but even she stopped doing the review on horseback in 1987.

I am no fan of Andrew, or any of the York's, but I do adore watching Trooping the Colour.

A massive amount of hard work goes into it from everyone to make it look effortless. It might look easy, but I would imagine it's pretty stressful spending that amount of time sitting on a horse with all that going on around you.

Twitter is pretty moronic at the best of times, why get so worked up about a stupid SM post ?

Happy to be enlightened Quattro and to revise my opinion

And for the record, I'm not a misery guts not am I worked up nor did I make any inference on anyone's achievements.

I fully admitted to feeling mean though .